Adventures among Viruses

Abstract

ON A wind-swept hilltop just outside Salisbury, in southern England, stands Harvard hospital, the site of the Common Cold Research Unit. I should like to tell you today how we are attempting there to learn something about the common cold, and also why we are doing it there, why we call the place Harvard hospital and what we have learned so far. I shall also have much to say about what we don't know, and I shall discuss means by which the problem can, perhaps, be attacked.Most of you know why our unit is called Harvard hospital, for I . . .